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cotted and all manner of obstruc- tions placed. In its path. Latterly, however, there has appeared on the part of the extremista a grentor disnosition to face the actunt facts, until the impression has been produced that such differ- ences as exist are more on method than on principle, and that there is little, if any, disagreement a to the goal which all desire to
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The Mercantile Bank of India has opened new branches at Kuala Kral, in Kelantan, Lipls, in Pahang,
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and at Kuala
1929.
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Delluted Dollar,
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
1
The Very Idea!
There is a dress reform move», ment in Switzerland, and the pos santry take it very seriously, Wi- liam Tell, they argue, and all the Sir-The opinion expressed in Swiss heroes wore loose knicker- my last letter of 30th ult, that ow-bockers, while the long trousers now. The League of Xutions Optuming to the depreciation of the generally worn were only intro- Commission which recently arrived dollar increase prices for imported duced with the French revolution in Singapore is due to leave that commodities are justified has evoked in imitation of the pantaloons, further question from Now they want knickerbockers and port for Hongkong on January 4th the
"Puzzled"; whether an immediate bara knees again, and whilst nt next.
demand for increased salaries work in the open air they are be Among the passengers who left would be justified too. This is ginning to wear the minimum of by the Empress of Asia yesterday certainly a problem which concerns clothing.
This summer's heat, haa-greatly were Capt. and Mrs. E, C. Ether- great part of the local community
at present. *
favoured the movement. At many ington, Mr. J. Gabbay, Miss N. C. Pakenham Walsh, and Col. G. R. Yports for most of its requirements, nothing but light white kuicker- As this Colony depends on im- schools just now the boys wear Steward.
higher prices for imported goods brokers at gymnastics, and the increased cost girls also are barelegged and wear of living. It is only fair that all costumes resembling bathing suita naturally mean wages should be raised accordingly. There was some opposition against This would not constitute any addi- these dresses, especially from the tional burden to the employers, be- Catholle clergy, but without much cause u depreciated dollar, and high, sitccess. The custom of abolishing er prices mean un increased turn stockings has made much progress uver in Hongkong dollars if the this summer. same volume of business is handled as before. A bigger turnover 'will "You're the lucky" one today.” yield a higher profit, and thus the remarked my bus conductor as he employer will be enabled to in-handed me my ticket, says a 'writer, creuse all wages accordingly. In a Home paper.
"Puzzled" was quite right in re- "How's that?" inquirred, marking that the knowledge of a whereupon he pointed to the ticket's workman is marketable commod-number-7777.
By the time these lines appear in print, the text ht Lord- Irwin's Proclamation may be made known, but, writing without knowledge of Its actual contents. 'we canțonly express the hope that the declaration will be the cattse of bringing rulers and ruled closer trom outside a shop in Shanghal On a charge of stealing a broom together, and that the way will be Street, a Chinese was sentenced to two months' hard labour by Mr. T. THERE ARE DOMESTIC opened up for very real co-opera-hote Smith at the Lowlvon MODELS OF FROM FOURtion in the interests of the coun-iagistracy this morning. The TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET try and the Empire alike. The defenlant had one previous eph- STORAGE CAPACITY. Simon Commission went to India viction for unlawful possession.
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FRIDAY, NOV. 1. 1929).
INDIA'S FUTURE,
people.
THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT,
Pictures of Topical Interest To-morrow.
To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will contain two pages of pictures of topical interest illustrating the events of the past week.
·Sports pictures will be numerous, including a number taken at last Saturday's Race Meeting; the Rugby match between the Club and H.M.S. Berwick; the ladies tennis semi-finals; the Spey Cup and lawn bowls singles cham- pionship finds; the K.O.S.B. pola team which won the K.O.Y.L.I. Cup; and officials and football players of the China Athletic Association,
There will also be a number of other interesting pictures, including photographs taken at the Oktoberfest" celebrations by the German community in Canton, and a picture of the wedding of Mr. Lau-Mei-yan and Mika Ho Yuk-chung,
tion of a
foreign employee, who
*
•
(Every salesman is an actor, says, Mr. Holbrook Jackaon.)
Though he's handsome.AS Novello, and would make a good Othello,
He's as light as any dancer, in
revue,
And enunciates so plainly that
Du Maurier or Ainley Might do worse than keep his
talent well in view. He's persuasive, energetic, lan-
guld, loud or, sympathetic, And when humour is demanded
-it is there,
Word and action synchronising, so it's really not surprising He can sell those socks at half
a-érown a pair.
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rising cost of living in order to as the men go to the seaside.-A avoid unreasonable hardships. be-witness at Marlborough-street. ing inflicted upon their employees.
ity, and there is certainly no rea- "One In a million," he exclaimed," son why wages should not be in- and most people who get that one crossed, if prices for all other com- are careful to keep it. It's sup modities rise. However, the posi-posed to bring you luck."
Superstition dies hurd, ever in came here on a fixed contract for this enlightened age, I thought. a period of five years, is somewhat, But I kept the ticket, all the same. different. If I said before that aI haven't yet come into a for retailer is justified in increasing his tune. prices at present, this referred, of conrad, to unsold goods only. If a merchant has sold goods on a contract basic for forward delivery, he has to deliver those goods at the contracted price and at the contract- ed time, even if such fulfilment of Dumping in Britain.
his contract means a loss to him: The assertion that no practicable
Now, the employee is the man who "sold" his working ability to a measures can be taken in England to combat the dumping of German
firm at a fixed salary for "de- bounty-fed wheat is one which
|livery" during a period of five should be closely scrutinised before
years. When closing such contract A Proclamation / which may acquiescence. A study of German
the employee must have been aware that his salary would be paid mark a turning point in the his-trade in cereals over a period of suggests that the years rather
in a silver currency which is liable tory of India is being issued to-day market for German wheat is very
to fluctuate. There is no doubt by the Vicerny. It deals with elastic and that it would probably
that with a low valded dollar and an increased cost of living he is the question of Dominion Status very soon be diverted elsewhere" In the event of even slight deterrent
the loser; but, on the other hand. for that great country, and steps by the British Government.
with a higher valued dollar and Inasmuch as the leading Indian In 1913, for instance, no less then
reduced cost of living he would Lying is all very well if you lie have been the winner. Closing a well, but if you don't it is better 250,000 metric tons, or near half politicians, including Gandhi, are the total wheat exports of Germany,
Suicide is suspected in con- cintract for a period of five years to tell the truth. A witness at said to have favourably received went to France. After the war nexion with the death of Lui Wing is always a kind of speculation, un-Tower Bridge. the Information issued to them France took practically none on, aged 20, who, according to the less the seller is certain that the Willesden Magistrate: Husbands when she took report of Captain MacKehmie, value of the commodities he is un-who desert their wives and go to regarding its purport, there would until 1928-29,
Home 35,000 tons, France master of the 8.5. Charles dertaking to deliver during this Scotland are immune; there is no seem hopes for believing that may therefore, be, presumed Hardouin, jumped overboard on period will not change. If an em-law to bring them back. Very definite step forward is pow to have again become a potential October 20th, whilst the ship was lovec did not wint to run the risk Man at Tottenham: "The fact likely to be made on the problem customer, Italy took 138,000 tons making a down-river trip from connected with a fluctuating silver that the policeman stopped me currency, he should have insisted proves that I was committing an in 1926-26, practically none for two | Canton. which has caused "so. much heart-years, and then reappeared in the
upon his salary being fixed on the offence. burning, and which has
statistics with 34.000 tons in 1928- Owing to their "absence, two basis of a gold currency. been
Mr. Meul, the Marlborough- 29. In 1927-28 when the dumping. Chinese had their bail of $10 each
This is the point of view if one street magistrate. Borstal is a proved to be bristling with difficul- evil was checked by normal factors, estreated when
failed te sticks to the letter of the contract. public school and all the inmates. ties. Some surprise will be felt Poland suddenly came into the answer charges of causing cruelty But this does not change my opin-are treated as if they are scholars that the Proclamation should be market and took a large supply to geese by failing to provide then that every fair and reasonable at a public school.
which otherwise would most cer-erate with matting, when the cases thinking firm should be willing to There is always a shortage of issued before the report of the tainly have gone to Great Britain. were mentioned before Mr. T, S.raise wages in accordance with the waiters in London in June and July Simon Commission has been made These instances tend to show that Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma public, and
the market for German wheat isgistracy this morning, WE had hoped
by no means stable and that there that the decision my have is no specific reason why free-trade The London correspondent of
Though it is not connected ex- Much disappointment is felt that been reached by common agree-Britain should always prove the the Ceylon Independent, cabling to actly with the above question, I Miss Varney Hancock Cashmere,
principal customer. Latest esti thater the news of Sir Hugh would like to take this opportunity the barmaid at the Marlborough, ment between the leaders of mates, we learn, place the crop. for Clifford's retirement, added that to vouch my opinion that it would Arms, Banbury, who recently con- three political parties at 1929 at 3.150,000 metric tons, which Sir George Maxwell was being be in the best interest of the great ducted the service and preached the Home, inasmuch as they had been less than in any of the previous mentioned as Sir Hugh's probable tinding in this Colony, it all the Church, was unable to do so again.
est part of the population living and sermon at Banbury Unitarian! in consultation on another aspect of things being equal, therefore, a Straits Settlements and High Com-rrency be eliminated by convert minister, who is away on holiday. four years except 1926. Other saccessor na Governor of the unstability connected with a silver She deputised one Sunday for the the Indian problem, namely, the falling off in the dumping during missioner for the Malay States. ing same into a gold currency. She is 26 years of age and has a question of hringing the Indian the current ecreal year should be noticed, and it may be that Sir
have reason to believe that this beautiful voice. States within the terms of refer- Edward life is fogging a scarcely of the Victoria Diocesan and Mis-to the trade passing through this parience," she said, "and I should The President and Committee would by no means be detrimental "It was a most interesting ex- ence of the Simon Commission kicking horse. On the other hand, sionary Association are to be "at Colony, But it would not be in not mind repeating it. I did not But it appears that the Govern- the recent increase in the German home AS
members and their the interest of local banks and feel the least bit nervous. tariff, and automatically of the ment has made this new gesture bounty, is encouraging to exports. Rititute on the 20th instant. Ten reason why it is said to be im selected Religion in the Church,
friends at the Helena May in speculators, and that may be the "As the subject of my sermon L alf its own bat, and that the ex-It is satisfactory, however, to note will be served and there will le pasible."Yours, etc.
that Mr. Noel Buxton, is examining pediency of the move is being ques- the situation with the object of address by Professor L. Furs
finding a means of action which ter on "The Religious Factor in
Education." It may be taken for granted that would not be contrary to the prin- this matter of Dominion Status for stuffs. No hint is given of the ciple of the non-taxation of food- India has been exhaustively process he would apply, but no doubt explored by the members of the it is clearer in his mind than it was Simon Commission, the chief feature of whose work has been to examine the extent to which it is desirable to extend. modify or. restrict responsible government. Long before the Commission was appointed, the British Parliament" enacted a statute which regulated the conditions under which India might learn by actual experience whether or not the Western system of representative government was the most appropriate means through which she might attain Court, responsible self-government within. the Empire. That Act never pro- fessed to incorporate irrevocable decisions, and it recognised that the position must of necessity be reviowed in the light of fuller knowledge gained by the lapse of Dr. Sven Hedin, the well-known time. The task of the Simon Com-explorer, arrived-in Hongkong. mission has been to report on the The 3rd Battn. of the Middlesex progress made, and to outline the Regiment gave a spectacular lan best method of meeting Indian ter tattoo at the Hongkong Cricket aspirations. Neither its terms of Club ground on the eve of their de
parture from the Colony. reference, nor its procedure, were | approved by many Indian political leaders, and it is now old history, how the Commission was boy sale.
tioned,
.
made to the Houso
21 YEARS' AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE
"TELEGRAPH“ FILES,
the Hongkong Telegraph for the The following extracts are from week ended October 31st, 1908:
and was 18. 9d. The rate of the dollar on de-
*
Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro was admitted to practice at the Supreme
Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, Render in
INFLATION. Hongkong. Nov, 1st., 1929.-
and I feel that I made a good fo pression on the congregation. It has alweays been my ambition to be: a preacher.'
Sir. I think that it must be Biology at the Hongkong Univer- generally agreed that the main sity, gave a brondeast talk on local reason for the drop in Exchange orchids on Weinesday night. Dr. is that the price of bar silver has WHO Herklots, who mentioned that he gone down, in other words, there had been in the Colony almost ex-is no demand for silver.
FI
WAS-? TARAKEE
no
The philosophy. of the Western antions sees merits in eccentric and use less forms of self-discipline, such as are practised in the Orient, and the name of bank-Tarakee is not honnured
our midst.
actly a year and had discovered. Now, what we want to know is about thirty-five species, described how to put the Hongkong dollar an interesting climb up Victoria in its rightful place and thereby Peuk in search of these. beautful stop all this premium business? and curious plants;
To do this we must first of all request the Hongkong Government The following police officers are to pass an Ordinance that Macedonia which suits from Hong-notes be all in silver. going on Home leave by the s.8. (1) The reserve against
kong on November 9: Detective (2) Free import and export of Sergeant E. R. Clemo (No. 7), De-hullion without any permits.
The subsequent result of this tective Sergeant C. T. Byron (Cen-) tral), Mr. L. 1. C. Calthrop, A.S.P., will be that the millions of Ster- Kowloon, Traffic Sergt. J. Scrimling securities lodged with the (Yaumati) and Sergt. M. Flaherty Government by the Banks against (Central). Nine police recruits bank-notes must be sold, (and the afe on their way to the Colony on Banks might be given six months in which to do this) and silver Victoria Home, Ma-tau-chung, was to arrive on November 20.
Miss Storr, a.lady missionary of board the s.s. Mantun which is due should then be bought with the walking with six Chinese girls near
proceeds causing a rise in the price the Home when she was attacked
of bar-silver (Exchange up!) Relatives, yesterday identified I want it to be distinctly un- by four men and robbed of a satchel the bodies of the three young Chin-derstood that we in Hongkong containing $300.
ese women whose bodies were re-cannot rule the world's silver covered from the harbour. The market, but I honestly think it to names of the; women' are given as be the duty of our Government and Li, Choi-yuk, Chung Shun-foon, the Banka to do their share" in and Ko Ming. The trio resided on maintaining that demand for the third floor of No. 2, Belchers silver, since the Hongkong Street, Kennedy Town, which is a currency is on a silver standard. place, occupied by a number of We in Hongkong cannot sit on the young amalis. The three women fence-we must be either silver or are said to have bean maid-ner- gold, and this fifty-fifty reserve vants who came down recently against our bank-notes is artificia) here. The suicide theory is now from Canton to find employment and must be remedied. Yours etc.
accepted.
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The Hongkong Fost notified, that Ing the Queen's head would be on henceforth no postage stamps bear
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Hongkong, Noy. 1st, 1920.
In certain parts of India. however, this damo Tarakee is.revered as a most hely man. He is reputed to have lived-to thee of eleven hundred, and.. to have practised a different form of mortification ench, century."
During the first hundred. Years of his earthly life, for Instance, he spent his waking hours standing on one foot. with arms upraised to the sky. For the whole of the next century he walked on tiptoe. At other periods of his existence he suspended him- self head downwards from a tree, or buried himself up. to the chip in the earth.
These singular devotions, none of which contributed- anything whatever to the wel- fare or happiness of mankind, are to a certain extent signi ficant of the general negative trend of Oriental religions,